Re: Different platform of the BI

Hi,

BI - Business intelligence which is part of BO.

BW - Data warehousing related.

if your speaking BW one, below points are helpful.

Main purpose of the BW is Reporting.

BW was have 3 major concepts

1. Modeling

2. ETL(Extraction,transferring and loading)

3. Reporting(BEX - Business explorer, its reporting tool)

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/b2/e50138fede083de10000009b38f8cf/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73ehp1/helpdata/en/b2/e50138fede083de10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm

BW Architecture was based on Extended star schema concept

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/EIM/Extended+Star+Schema

Regarding Extraction:

http://scn.sap.com/people/swapna.gollakota/blog/2008/01/14/one-stage-stop-to-know-all-about-bw-extractors-part1

http://scn.sap.com/people/swapna.gollakota/blog/2008/01/14/one-stage-stop-to-know-all-about-bw-extractors-part2

Regarding Bex:

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/Understanding-and-using-SAP-BEx-reporting-tools

http://pdfsdb.com/pdf/bex-query-designer-tutorial-pdf

Thanks

Raman